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...FORBES BUILDING IN NEW YORK City is in an odd neighborhood for a corporate headquarters: the fringe of Greenwich Village, set with sedate apartment buildings and churches from the 1840s. It's odd inside too: the ground-floor museum, founded by the late Malcolm Forbes Sr., is stuffed with presidential autographs, czarist Faberge eggs and toy soldiers. From this improbable aerie, Forbes' eldest son Malcolm ("Steve") Forbes Jr., the 48-year-old editor in chief of Forbes magazine, plans to descend into the scrum of Republican presidential politics. He could announce his candidacy as early as this week...
Unlike them, Florine Stettheimer was not in the least bohemian. The Arensbergs had bizarre figures of the Greenwich Village avant-garde like Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, the first New York punkette, who made public appearances with her hair shaved off and her scalp dyed purple. Such creatures would never have been tolerated at Stettheimer's evenings in town, where decorum prevailed, or her picnics in the country, which she painted as fetes champetres full of wispy, epicene figures...
DIED. ADELE SIMPSON, 91, fashion designer whose clients included First Ladies and Hollywood stars; in Greenwich, Connecticut. Simpson's classic, never revolutionary designs emphasized a ladylike look...
Cantwell describes life in the hub of the city, Greenwich Village, and her own transformation into a "Villager". After years in the city, two children bring a need for more space, and perhaps a departure from Cantwell's loved terrain, "but giving up Greenwich village would have meant giving up not only its sweet, seedy, streets but a certain self-image. B. and I were villagers; we bore a noble heritage...
...that it's hard to get through a week without another new prodigy popping up somewhere. With flying-fingered young virtuosos like Marcus Roberts, Cyrus Chestnut and Eric Reed trying to outdo one another on showy new solo albums and jostling for attention in nightclubs from Bourbon Street to Greenwich Village, competition on the keyboards is more intense than it has been in years. In the midst of all this musical gunslinging, it would be easy to overlook Jacky Terrasson, a newcomer from Paris. But that would be a mistake...